Hammock-clamp.



No. 791,319. PATENTED MAY 30, 1905.

z. LJGHADBOURNE.

HA'MMOGK CLAMP.

APPLICATION FILED AUG.12, 1904.

UNITED STATES Patented May 30, 1905.

PATENT ()FEIC HAMMOCK-CLAMP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 791,319, dated May 30, 1905, Application filed AngustlZ. 1904. Serial No. 220,575.

To all whom it may concern.-

manner, while adding to the finish and attractiveness of the hammocks.

To these ends said invention consists of the,

structural features of its constituent parts, substantially as hereinafter more fully disclosed, and particularly pointed out by the claims.

In the accompanyingdrawings, illustrating the preferred embodiment of my invention, Figure 1 is a view in plan, showing the converging end portions of the suspending-cables for one end ofa hammock, together with the link to which said cables are connected, with my invention applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a detached perspective view of the clamp or fastening constituting my invention. Fig. 3 is a transverse section thereof. Fig. 4: is disassembled views of the members or parts of said clamp or invention in inverted position.

In the carrying out of my invention I form a clamp or fastening 1 of two members or parts 1 1, preferably of the general outline the opposite member apertures or slots 2, receiving said lugs to provide for the connecting and holding together of the latter at said edges, as in applying the same for use. Said members or parts are formed at their corner edges with notches or recesses 3, which when said members are assembled constitute apertures or holes for the passage therethrough of the opposite portions of the link 4, to which are connected' the converging ends of the hammock-suspending cables, the use of said link and the connecting thereto of said cables not, however, being new as relates to this application.

In applying the device for use themembers 1 l separately held, are applied to the normally upper and lower surfaces of the cables and the links 4, with the lateral portions of the latter passing through the apertures or holes formed by the notches or recesses 3 in said members, the lugs or tongues 2 of one member having been inserted through the slots 2 of the companion member. The two said members are now brought throughout their opposite ends upon said cables and link, after which a screw 5 is inserted through 00- incident holes 5, produced in said members near their curved edges, and screwed tightly in place, thus clamping said members firmly and effectively upon the aforenamed cables and housing or inclosing the points of connection of said cables with said link.

Latitude, it will be understood, is allowed as to details herein,as they may be changed as circumstances suggest without departing from the spirit of my invention.

- I claim l. A device of the character described, comprising two articulated-together members conjointly forming a clamp, adapted to be applied as stated means for binding said members upon the interposed portions of a hammock and a link received within said aperture and having said hammock portions connected thereto.

2. A device of the character described, comprising two members conjointly forming a clamp, one having at its right-lined edges rightangled lugs or tongues and the other member having slots, both of I said members having notches at their corner edges forming apertures or holes and means to clamp said members upon the interposed portions of a hammock.

3. A device of the character described, employing two half-disk-like members with their opposed edges facing or presented toward each other, and conjointly forming a clamp, said members having interfitting lugs and slots, and adapted and otherwise held upon the interposed portions of a hammock said members having notches at their corner edges forming apertures or holes, and a link, to which are connected said hammock portions, received Within said apertures or holes.

4. A device of the character described, employing two members conjointly adapted to form a clamp and articulated together along their initiallymeeting edges, said members having notches at their corner edges to form apertures or holes, and adapted to be further secured in position upon the interposed parts of a hammock.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ZEBULON L. CHADBOURNE.

Witnesses:

AUGUST GEBELEIN, ZnBULoN J. CHADBOURNE. 

